your show. this guy is in real trouble. do we think people are going to see him as strong? he is in big trouble on that issue. another fox news shows honest and trustworthy. joe biden polls is a strong leader, 51% think donald trump strong leader on the question of corruption. joe biden 44%. donald trump 55%. on fundraising, desantis largest haul, 8.2 million dollars first 24 hours announcing presidential campaign. biden campaign yet to reveal fundraising numbers. biden did troll desantis campaign and president s age seems to keep coming up, yesterday, jacui heinrich, you
that see what he has done. you know, desantis talked about how trump is only attacking desantis. all the other candidates are also attacking desantis. i don t know necessary what that means they know it s a race to second to be right there behind trump and find a stated in the primary to jump ahead of him there is a lot of pressure on desantis and give him credit for putting his hat in this ring knowing that everyone is going to compare him to trump and trump has such a winning record as president. he also carries that banner. all the arrows in his back curly all the conservatives that say woke ideology and woke democrats attacking who we are as people. trump has been there and taking those arrows. doing his part as well. ainsley: $8.2 million. donors summit and miami this week. it shows a lot of enthusiasm. this is historic because it tops the previous record that was made by joe biden. in his first 24 hours after announcing in 2019 he raised 6.3
his first public event since announcing his candidacy. our nbc news team reports that at a summit with donors in miami yesterday, the florida governor mapped out their strategy to beat the gop front runner including positioning desantis as the values candidate. the latest polling puts trump ahead of desantis by sizable margins. i want to bring in nbc news correspondent dasha burns and former republican congressman from florida, carlos curbelo. dasha, let me start with you, how does desantis think he can beat trump sf. well, look, he s going to be laying out the case as he did yesterday to donors here in miami that he is the best alternative to the former president and that voters are, in fact, looking for that. one big piece of evidence that they are going to be touting for that point is massive number that the campaign just put out. they re saying that they raised $8.2 million in the 24 hours since desantis launched his
both south carolina senator tim scott and ron desantis of florida making their bids official. the florida governor showing off his fundraising prowess, raising $8.2 million in his first 24 hours as a candidate, a stretch where he repeatedly sparred with former president trump on a wide range of issues. let s bring in karl rove. the let s put up the latest fox news polling on the republican race. trump way out in front with 53%, followed by desantis at 20%. everybody else is down in the single digits. karl, it sure looks like a two-person race at this point. what do you think? well, i think it s premature. it does look like a two-person race. it may be a two-person race. it could be a two-person race. we ve got a lot of time to go between now and when people start voting in iowa and new hampshire, nevada and south carolina. key to this is going to be how the candidates campaign in the early states, whether they are able to spark large public
for a campaign to essentially say on his own our candidate is not strong enough to do this, so the other guy needs to crash and burn and admit all his legal problems. that s the reality? yeah, there are legitimate questions, chris, should ron desantis even be running this cycle because he might end up losing and then having that loser tag on him. look, i think the other candidates have gotten in because they ve also seen the weakness of ron desantis. they ve seen his ceiling. look, anybody who s going to take on donald trump at this point, the strategy has to be a delegate slog through the early states. that clearly is where desantis intends to spend his money. all right, dasha, tell us a little bit more about what you ve learned about team desantis s strategy right now in these early days of his official campaign. reporter: well, look, chris, that number that you mentioned at the top there, $8.2 million, they are going to be using that as evidence as they try to make that case t